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Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production
Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the…
Condé Nast Partners With Art.com To Reopen Online Image Store
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a…
Condé Nast Launches Private Exchange With AdMeld
Although ad sales people at major publishers sometimes like to deride real-time bidding as a “race to the bottom,” fearing that the auction-…
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Condé Nast Marries Print And iPad Subscriptions In UK
Condé Nast is finally allowing UK print subscribers to its magazines to access the same magazines inside corresponding iPad apps, by inputt…
TV Veteran Dawn Ostroff To Run Condé Nast’s New Entertainment Venture
Condé Nast is get into producing TV, film and digital programing with the introduction of a new entertainment division and has brought in T…
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Condé Nast ‘Social Sidekick’ Aims To Cross-Pollinate Mag Brands
As publishers have made use of Twitter and Facebook to drive traffic back to their branded, Condé Nast’s Social Sidekick tool is meant to g…
Condé Nast Digital Mags Drew Nearly 250K Downloads Since May
Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App…
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The Morning Lowdown 08-01-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD)
» The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPa…
The Morning Lowdown 06-06-11
» Penry Price to Leave Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Startup Media6Degrees (AdAge)
» As Digital-Ad Techniques Proliferate,…
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Condé Nast Rolls Out iPad Subs For Wired, GQ; NY Mag Holds Off For Now
Condé Nast’s titles are continuing to roll out their subscription plans for the iPad following agreements between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and ot…
GQ and Wired Jump on the iPad Subscription Train
Condé Nast continues its rollout of iPad magazine subscriptions with two marquee titles today, Wired and GQ. Both are now available both monthly for $1.99, and yearly for $19.99, and existing print subscribers will be able to access iPad editions for free.
The Morning Lowdown 05-23-11
» Sony (NYSE: SNE) to report $3.2 billion loss as it struggles with production disruptions, hacker attack (AP)
» 30,0…
Condé Nast UK To Invest More In iPad Apps
iPad magazine sales have often failed to live up to their early promise, but Condé Nast Digital Britain is nevertheless upping its investme…
The Morning Lowdown 03-07-11
» Condé Nast’s Glamour is creating an original reality series produced exclusively for the iPad that incorporates e-commerce. No…
To “Appify” Old Media, We Need a New Approach
The publishing industry is keeping its formerly inky fingers crossed that mobile devices, including the seemingly ubiquitous iPad, will save its behind. But to do so, it needs to deconstruct its content and find a way to use it in an entirely new way.
Condé Nast’s Epicurious App Adds Pay Model To Mix
Just a week after Condé Nast’s iPad-only Gourmet Live added pay-to-download features within the app, the publisher’s two-year-old Epicuriou…
Yahoo’s Former M&A Chief Surfaces At Advance Publications
Andrew Siegel, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) M&A chief who announced late last month that he was leaving, is now taking the top M&A job at Conde Na…
Wired’s UK iPad Edition Debuts, Priced Between Print Copy And Print Sub
Wired magazine’s UK version has unveiled its debut iPad edition alongside its December print edition today.
Weighing in at a hefty 528Mb,
Reddit Co-Founder Slowe Leaves
Christopher Slowe, one of the three co-founders of Reddit who sold the site to Conde Nast four years ago and had been working as its manager…
Condé Nast Digital Shakeup Coming?
The ground beneath Condé Nast appears to be shifting again, as the publisher is preparing another reorg of its digital and print operations…
Condé Nast Study Concludes iPad Is Not A Mobile Device (At Least Not Now)
There have been over 3.8 million downloads of Condé Nast apps on the iPad and iPhone since the publisher began rolling them out. Over the p…
Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule
Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version.
But the edition will publish a single issue first…
Condé Nast Gets Deeper Into Selling Digital Content
Condé Nast is taking a bigger step toward creating more paid content Monday when it unveils its Golf Digest on Demand, a golf-instruction v…
The Morning Lowdown 09.29.10
» In five years, 75 percent of display ads will be
The Morning Lowdown 09.27.10
» The New Yorker is launching on the iPad today and the pressure on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to provide a better solution for selling m…
Condé Nast UK MD: Up To 40 Percent Of Sales Could Be On iPad
By Mark Sweney: Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, has predicted that in the future as many as 40% of the publishe…
The Message Isn’t Always The Medium
There’s an intriguing thinkpiece in Wired UK’s September edition in which Russell Davies effectively argues that the shape of our content is…
The Morning Lowdown 08.06.10
» A Jack Griffin-led Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) would include the same emphasis he put on marketing services at Meredith (NYSE: MDP),…
Condé Nast Taps Viacom Vet Simon for CTO Post
After 12 years as Viacom’s chief information officer, Joe Simon is heading to Condé Nast for a similar role. The hire comes two weeks after…
More Changes At Condé Nast: Sauerberg Promoted to President
Summer Friday news from Condé Nast: Robert Sauerberg has been promoted to president from group president, consumer marketing. Chuck Townsen…
Condé Nast Enlists Web Edit Staff For Samsung Advertorial
Condé Nast is attempting to protect the traditional wall separating advertising from print editorial by having online-only staffers create…
Conde Nast Applies Gaming To Iconic Brand With New ‘Gourmet Live’
Conde Nast’s latest digital brainstorm mixes the DNA of a 75-year print brand with the tech skill set of a 2010 startup. Gourmet Live, an iP…
Condé Nast Will Unveil Mobile Research Project In September
Although Condé Nast was one of the first magazine publishers to adopt digital replicas for mobile apps, along with Hearst, which has apps f…
Condé Nast Vet Tom Florio Resigns
Longtime Condé Nast executive Tom Florio will leave the magazine publisher at the end of the month. Florio has recently served as the compa…
Ex-Condé Nast ‘Digital Kingmaker’ Kourosh Karimkhany Joins TPM As COO
Talking Points Memo has hired former Condé Nast digital M&A exec Kourosh Karimkhany as COO at a time when TPM appears to be demonstrating c…
Wired iPad Edition Will Likely Be Cheaper Than Print
So says Wired UK editor David Rowan in conversation with AudioBoo’s Mark Rock…
Wired has been working with Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Experience…
Condé Nast Expands Licensing, E-Commerce With Mag Titles (Even Some Dead Ones)
At Condé Nast’s annual publishers’ meeting in Miami this week, executives will outline the company’s plans to roll out a digital tablet for…
Fairchild CEO Beckman Resigns To Lead Former Nielsen Mags At e5 Global Media
Richard Beckman (pictured) is leaving his post as Condé Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Group’s CEO to become the first chief executive of e5 Glob…
paidContent Quick Hits: 12.31.09
» The rumored Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet will cost under $1,000, according to a second hand account given to ex-Google (NSDQ: GOOG…
Vogue Turns To Obama’s Online Fundraiser For Revenue Drive
It’s been seven months since Tom Florio, publishing director for Vogue, asked if it would be possible to take the online ad strategy that he…
Condé Nast Gets Wired Ready For Apple Tablet (In Case There Is One)
Just as Condé Nast celebrates the acceptance of the special, digitized issue of GQ into Apple’s App store, the company is now hoping and pr…
CondéNet UK Lost £1.2 Million In 2008
Vogue and Wired publisher Condé Nast’s UK online division made a net loss of £1.27 million ($2.1 million) in 2008 — compared to a £463,0…
@ Ad:tech: There’s No Competing With Free
With so much free content available online, traditional media companies are tying themselves in knots trying to find a way to translate thei…
Reddit Co-Founders Leave Conde Nast
Three years after selling their news aggregation site to Conde Nast, Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are leaving the com…
Condé Nast Restructures Digital Sales Along Five Categories
Struggling to find its footing amid an industry-wide print crisis, Conde Nast recently shed an estimated 400 staffers. The fallout has natur…
Gilt Groupe’s Jetsetter Signs Deal With Condé Nast Traveler
Magazines may be struggling, but invite-only luxury discount shopping site Gilt Groupe is looking for print partners. Gilt Groupe has create…
Condé Nast Brings Titles to iPhone, Keeps Eyes On the iTablet
Newspapers and magazines — the entire news print industry to be honest — have been suffering a long and torturous decline for…
Condé Nast Cuts Keep Coming: W Lays Off Seven Staffers
About seven sales staffers were let go from Condé Nast’s W magazine on Friday, Mediaweek reports. These latest cuts are part a slow bleed,…
Wired’s International Roll-Out Safe Despite Conde Nast Cutbacks
Condé Nast may have issued an edict that its publishers cut their magazine budgets by 25 percent. But Wired’s UK and Italian odyssey remain…
Condé Nast Job Ax Hits Digital; 15 Jobs Cut
Although Condé Nast’s print side is in significant distress, the digital side is not completely safe from the company’s deep cuts. About 15…
Newsweek: Condé Nast Mags Face $1 Billion Ad Decline
As Condé Nast continues working through its McKinsey &Co.-imposed cost cuts, a Newsweek analysis of the publisher’s ad revenue situation su…
Condé Nast Completes Review; Gourmet Shuttered; Bride Mags Consolidated; 180 Staffers Being Let Go
Condé Nast’s reorg is in and a number of magazines are getting chopped as the company consolidates properties in its food and bridal divisi…
Some Condé Nast Publishers Told To Slash Budgets By 25 Percent
More details from the recommendations by McKinsey consultants to Condé Nast bigwigs are starting to trickle down and it’s somewhere between…
Following McKinsey's Directives, Condé Nast Told To Start Cutting
Now that McKinsey & Company’s review of how Condé Nast’s should manage its costs amid dwindling ad revenues has been submitted, the decisio…
No More Easy Living For Conde Nast
[by James Robinson] Early in September, as models and magazine editors arrive in the capital for London fashion week, a report by management…
Portfolio.com Returns; All ACBJ And Conde Nast Biz Content
Portfolio.com, the website of the defunct Conde Nast magazine Portfolio, has relaunched, after about two weeks of delay from the original pl…
Broadband Content Bits: ITN Signs Fashion; Gay IPTV Launch; GQ.com Adds We7
— ITN On: News distributor ITN’s digital division has signed a deal to provide broadcast footage for online and mobile publisher Imagine Fa…
CondeNast Dismantling Men.Style.com; Focus On GQ.com As Flagship
CondeNast, which has hired McKinsey to help rethink its business, is starting early: it is closing down Men.Style.com, its online-only desti…
Industry Moves: Conde Net International Picks Bilefield As President
Conde Nast’s overseas digital arm CondeNet International has found its replacement for recently departed international new media president S…
Chris Anderson: Newspapers Need To Find The ‘Pet For Their Penguin’
[by Kevin Anderson] Wired editor and author Chris Anderson told the Guardian that newspapers need to find a “pet for their penguin”
Weekend Reading: The Future Of Wired, Malcontents and Content
Forget the discussion and the torrent of words everywhere about the future of newspapers and magazines. Instead, head over to Boing Boing Ga…
Portfolio.com Gets Reprieve; Site Moves From Condé Nast To BizJournals Unit
It looks like Condé Nast has decided to give Portfolio.com a chance to live after all. While the print version was shuttered late last mont…
Publishers Still Doing Launches; Latest In Emerging Markets And Banking
As the news and information industry contracts, you’re far more likely hear of closures than new launches. But some publishers are spotting…
@ FIPP: Condé Nast Sees Online Profit Now Harder, Will Return
Just one word from Condé Nast International chairman Jonathan Newhouse sparked the first spontaneous round of applause of the FIPP World Ma…
Interview: Condé Nast’s Carey And Wired’s Anderson: Pursuing The ‘Freemium’ Model
It’s small consolation for magazine publishers that the industry can at least say it’s doing better than newspapers. In terms of the transit…
@ FIPP: BBC Mulled Paid Recipe Site, Web Minor For Lagardère
Consumer magazines have seen their fair share of carnage in the publishing recession, with a steady stream of redundancies and some high-pro…
UPDATE: Condé Nast Pulls Plug On Portfolio And Some 80 Jobs; Website’s Odds Of Survival Slim
Update: While Portfolio is done as a print publication, discussions are still ongoing about the fate of its website. Two senior executives a…
Glamour.com Gets Traffic Touch-up Courtesy Of Google
Condé Nast’s Glamour.com has been making strides in driving traffic the past year — it gained four times to 1.4 million monthly uniques in…
Industry Moves: Beckman, Lagani Out At Condé Nast’s Fairchild
As another wave of layoffs and cutbacks hangs over Condé Nast, one top ad exec has decided to move to a less glamorous perch within the com…
Industry Moves: CondéNet International President Stefano Maruzzi Departs
CondéNet International, the global digital division of magazine giant CondéNast, is searching for a new president after news emerged (via…
Interview: CN Digital President Sarah Chubb: Print And Digital Combo Gets Us Ready For Better Times
Over the past year, a number of magazine publishers have decided that it no longer makes sense to keep different ad sales teams for print an…
Condé Nast To Shutter Home Shelter Mag Domino; Website Closed As Well
Barely a week after it decided to consolidate all its digital assets in one unit, Condé Nast has decided to pull the plug on both the print…
Condé Nast Merges All Digital Into One Unit; CondéNet’s Chubb Heads New CN Digital
Condé Nast is abandoning its longstanding strategy of separating digital properties and deciding instead to roll them all into one division…
Industry Moves: Condé Nast Digital Exec Brandt Jumps To Linkstorm As CEO
Ari Brandt has left his role as digital media head of Condé Nast Business Media Group Online and joined ad technology provider Linkstorm as…
Broadband Content Bits: Disney XD; WB’s ‘Rockville’; Cookiemag; NIN
— Disney (NYSE: DIS) rebrands toon channel as Disney XD: In a push to reach school-aged (6-14) boys, the WSJ says Disney is rebranding its…
As Print Mags’ Suffering Deepens, The Web Side Pays A High Price
The digital side of the business is supposed to be the salvation for magazine companies, which, like their newspaper counterparts, are shedd…
Condé Nast Shutters Blog Net Tied To Beauty Mags
Last week, Condé Nast said it was suspending new website launches due to economy’s tailspin. Now, it is closing a blog network tied to Glam…
Condé Nast Suspends New Website Launches Indefinitely; Another Blow To Razorfish?
Condé Nast’s plans to build out new websites for mags such as Details have been suspended for an indefinite period, according to AgencySpy,…
Ad Industry Roundup: Glamour; NBCU; AP; Microsoft; AOL
— Conde Nast brings Glamour.tv to advertisers: Glamour.com is ramping up its branded content moves with a new video channel. The Conde Nast…
CondéNet Integrates Ad Sales Teams; Staff Reorg Focuses On Verticals, Not Titles
Times are getting a little tougher for online ad revenues. And so with marketers’ demands for one-stop shopping across a company’s sites get…
How Long, Mr. Newhouse: Conde Nast’s Gloss in Digital Age
A long profile of Si Newhouse and Conde Nast in the Sunday Business section of the New York Times today, touching on issues such as successi…
The Devil Wears Online Video: Vogue Brings Big Budget Reality Series To The Web
Vogue magazine isn’t about displaying cheap knockoffs. So in keeping with its expensive tastes, the magazine’s Vogue.tv video site is preppi…
Conde Nast Pulls The Plug On Golf For Women
Conde Nast will shutter Golf For Women magazine with the July/August issue after 10 years. In its announcement, Conde Nast simply says that…
Industry Moves: CondeNet; Microsoft; Charter; Technorati; Disney-ABC
— CondeNet: After three years in the role of CFO at CondeNet CondeNast, Debi Chirichella has been upped to the new post of COO for CondeNet…
Updated: Wired Buys Back HotWired And Webmonkey Too; Relaunches Latter
Updated below: Wired Digital, part of CondeNast, who has just bought tech news site Artechnica (we reported on it this weekend), has also qu…
Updated: CondeNast Buys Tech News Site Arstechnica
Updated: The deal has been announced officially. Also, Ken Fisher, the founder of ArsTechnica, explains the rationale of the deal in a rathe…
Ad Industry Roundup: Job Numbers; Conde Nast; NBCU/Fox; AzoogleAds; Modernista; McDonald’s; Omnicom
— Online jobs post first year-over-year decline: Online job vacancies posted an unusually poor showing last month, as the Conference Board…
Conde Nast Separates Print And Digital Ad Sales For Bridal Mags
Conde Nast has completed a reorg of its bridal magazines’ ad sales teams, which involves separating its digital and print sides, Mediaweek r…
Carey: Portfolio.com To Supply 30 Percent Of Magazine's Total Ad Revs By Next Year
While being part of a private company does afford Conde Nast’s Portfolio a greater degree of flexibility in building its business, the compa…
Executive Shakeup At Conde Nast; Departures And Promotions
There has been a major shakeup at Conde Nast: it has ousted the publishers of two of its top titles–The New Yorker and Lucky–and its group…
Thinking Of Online Video Ads? Here’s A Price List
The major online video sites offers a very simple choice when it comes to advertising rates: pay $90 CPMs on the high end or $10 to $20 CPMs…
CondeNet Will Distribute Video, Sell Ads On YouTube; Online Ad Net Being Considered (Of Course)
CondéNet continues to revise its online strategy, this time striking a deal with YouTube to distribute videos. Under the terms of their ag…
Industry Moves Roundup: Conde Nast; Belo; CinemaNow; Kaboose-AOL; Media Kitchen
— Conde Nast: Lisa Ryan Howard, who has spent the past nine months as publisher of Conde Nast’s Style.com and Men.style.com, replaces outgo…
Conde Nast's W Gets Standalone Site, Others To Follow; Latest Strategy Reduces Reliance On Portals
As part of its evolving digital strategy to create individual websites, as opposed to grouping titles within themed portals, Conde Nast is s…
Conde Nast Closes Down House & Garden; Website Closing As Well
After nearly 100 years in print, Conde Nast will cease publishing House & Garden with the magazine’s December issue, WWD reported. Unlike pr…
Make-Your-Own Cookbook Service Tastebook Launches With Investment From Conde Nast
Berkeley, CA-based Tastebook, a site that allows users to make their own cookbooks, has raised an undisclosed investment from Conde Nast (vi…
Industry Moves Roundup: Comcast Interactive; News Corp.; Glam; Discovery; TheWeek
— Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Media, the unit that runs the cable company’s websites, has named Scott Bailey SVP and GM of Comcast.ne…
Conde Nast Social Net Flip Tries To Avoid Flop With Partnerships And Promotions
Is Conde Nast teen social net Flip.com flopping? WWD reports that one of the site’s editors, Holly Siegel, has defected to rival Hachette F…
Broadband Content Bits: NBC/AP Olympics, ITV Local, Easy Living. CondeNet
— Olympics: NBC will provide video from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to a forthcoming multimedia website offered to Associated Press clients.…
Vogue's Entertainment/E-Commerce Broadband Channel Drives Increased Print Ads
Vogue magazine’s September issue drops on newsstands today with a phone-book sized 727 pages. Much of that bulk was achieved through ads sol…
Conde Nast’s Much-Hyped Portfolio Launching Monday; Site Now Live
Forget about the weekend, leave whatever you’re doing. Portfolio’s website has gone live (the magazine is launching Monday)…we had a secon…
With A Week Until Launch, The Buzz About Conde Nast Portfolio’s Site
Conde Nast Portfolio magazine will be hitting stands next week and its companion website will be released in conjunction. Jeff Jarvis was gi…
MIVA Awarded Conde Nast Interactive U.K. Account, Beating Yahoo And Google
Online ad network MIVA has won the pay-per-click content account for Conde Nast Interactive U.K., besting pitches from Yahoo Search Marketin…
New Yorker Cartoons Available As Animated, Ad-Supported Podcasts
The New Yorker’s famous cartoons can now be viewed as an animated, ad-supported video podcast on iTunes through RingTales, an online animati…
Hachette To Launch Home Improvement Portal; CondeNet’s Flip Opens Today
Hachette Filipacchi Media plans to launch PointClickHome.com, a web portal targeting in-market home buyers and/or those about to take on a m…
Conde Nast Takes Away Operations Of Magazine Websites From CondeNet
Magazine firm Conde Nast has transferred operations and maintenance of its individual magazine websites from its interactive unit, CondeNet,…
Conde Nast Insiders Are Unhappy with Digital Business Setup: Report
Vogue’s status as a fashion industry bible hasn’t translated into a strong online presence and that’s a problem for publisher Conde N…
Wired Acquires Social News Site Reddit
Steve Newhouse just e-mailed in with the news: Wired News, now part of Conde Nast, has made another interesting acquisition:Reddit.com, whic…
Conde Nast Acquires NutritionData.com
Look what’s happening to Conde Nast…it is getting Web-Savvy, ten years later. Ok, that’s harsh, but better late…
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